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Detect # in URL With PHP

I have created a section on my site that has tabs with different content for different pages in them. I identify them by #id, so that if the user refreshes the page it keeps them on that "id" page instead of going back to the first one. However, since I switch it over with javascript, it shows the first page for a second while it loads and then switches over to the correct page. I was wondering if there is a way to do this same thing in PHP.

var the_block = window.location.href.split("#");
		if (the_block[1] == "auctions") {
			document.getElementById('market').style.display = "none";
			document.getElementById('auctions').style.display = "block";
			document.getElementById('market_link2').style.fontWeight = "normal";
			document.getElementById('auctions_link2').style.fontWeight = "bold";
		} else if (the_block[1] == "trades") {
			document.getElementById('market').style.display = "none";
			document.getElementById('trades').style.display = "block";
			document.getElementById('market_link3').style.fontWeight = "normal";
			document.getElementById('trades_link3').style.fontWeight = "bold";
		} else if (the_block[1] == "shop") {
			document.getElementById('market').style.display = "none";
			document.getElementById('shop').style.display = "block";
			document.getElementById('market_link4').style.fontWeight = "normal";
			document.getElementById('shop_link4').style.fontWeight = "bold";
				if (the_block[2] == "stock") {
					click_stock();
					document.getElementById('stock').style.display = "block";
					document.getElementById('inventory').style.display = "none";
					document.getElementById('stock_link').style.fontWeight = "bold";
					document.getElementById('inventory_link').style.fontWeight = "normal";
				} else if (the_block[2] == "history") {
					click_history();
					document.getElementById('history').style.display = "block";
					document.getElementById('inventory').style.display = "none";
					document.getElementById('history_link').style.fontWeight = "bold";
					document.getElementById('inventory_link').style.fontWeight = "normal";
				} else {
					click_inventory();
				}
		}

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hernst42

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Ali Kayahan

You may use parse_url() function to get anchor side on a given url as string. You may use ;
<?php
$url = 'http://username:password@hostname/path?arg=value#anchor';

print_r(parse_url($url));

echo parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH);
?>
[scheme] => http
[host] => hostname
[user] => username
[pass] => password
[path] => /path
[query] => arg=value
[fragment] => anchor

But as hernst42 said you should use JS before...

jls33fsls

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Well, I thought about doing a cookie, but the problem with this is that if they leave that section and come back it won't go to the first page like they expect.